Community Calendar

MUSIC

7:30pm-10:00pm, Colo. Mesa University, Mesa Experimental Theater in the Moss Performing Arts Center

Brad Richter, classical guitarist, composer and educator will be in concert at CMU in the Mesa Experimental Theater located in the Moss Performing more...0 Arts Center on April 17th at 7:30 PM. At 18 Richter was awarded the Presidential Scholarship to the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. After completing his undergraduate degree Richter went on to earn his masters degree from the Royal College of Music in London, studying with guitarist Carlos Bonell. Fred Child, of NPR's Performance Today, has stated that Brad is "a guitarist who, like Paganini, is known for ignoring the generally accepted limits of the instument." Tickets will be available in advance for $15.00 at Roper Music, Back Porch Music, Hart Music and eC's Asian Station or at the door for $20.00. general admission.

MUSIC

6:00pm-12:00am, 538 Main st Grand Junction CO 81501

John Conlee is a country music icon and has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1981. During John Conlee’s near 40 year career in more...0 Country Music, he has brought to audiences such classic songs as: "Rose Colored Glasses" (John's signature song), "Friday Night Blues", "Backside of 30", "Common Man", "Miss Emily's Picture", "I Don't Remember Lovin' You", and more. Overall, there have been over 30 single releases throughout the years with 26 of them charting in the top 20 or better. Eight of those 26 have reached the coveted No. 1 spot on the national country charts.

LITERARY

Living the Ridiculously Creative Life

7:00pm-9:00pm, KAFM Radio Room

Join us for a glass of wine, some acoustic music, a visual feast, and a lively discussion on the creative process, the nature of play and discovery, more...0 and how the arts can build community, with four local legends: Dave Davis, Sandy King, Cullen Purser and Lyle Nichols. KAFM or WCWF members, $10, non-members $5. Doors open 6:30.

MUSIC

LIVE MUSIC

9:00pm-12:00am, INTRINZIK 512 East Main

Intrinzik and Blue Mesa Float Center are extremely proud to present Reed Mathis and Electric Beethoven! $12 Advance/$15 DOS. Tickets available at more...0 Intrinzik (970)615-7280 and Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reed-mathis-and-electric-beethoven-tickets-44436288134 While on tour with various projects over the past few years, bassist extraordinaire Reed Mathis spent his spare time rearranging Beethoven (Symphonies 3 and 6), recording each newly reimagined movement with a long and impressive “who’s-who” list of his musical brethren, including Phish’s Page McConnell and Mike Gordon, Marco Benevento, Joe Russo, the Barr Brothers, Robert Walter and Galactic’s Stanton Moore. The resulting double album, “Beathoven,” was released September 2016 on Royal Potato Family records. When imagining what it would be like to tour these Beethoven masterpieces, Mathis rearranged his rearrangements a second time, this time welding Beethoven’s motifs and melodies to modern-era dance beats, with plenty of waypoints for the musicians to jump off into heavy, full-band improvisations. It’s jamtronica with Beethoven — hence, the world’s first CDM (“classical dance music”) band. While the album’s many special guests will show up at various shows along the way, to tour the album for the next two years, Mathis assembled his very own dream team: Jay Lane (Primus, Ratdog) on drums, Todd Stoops (RAQ / Kung Fu) on keyboards, Cochrane McMillan (Tea Leaf Green) on percussion and laptop, and Clay Welch — a young guitar phenom who literally grew up studying Mathis as a bass player while following Mathis’ then-band, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, from show to show as a fan.

MUSIC

5:00pm-12:00am, Downtown Durango

Three days of Bluegrass music with indoor venues in Downtown Durango featuring 29 National, regional and local bluegrass bands, workshps, jamming an more...0 an Old Time Dance.

MUSIC

LIVE MUSIC

9:00pm-12:00am, INTRINZIK 512 East Main

Denver based, Alt-Country Band, 5 & Dimers play Intrinzik for raucous night of quality country music! $10 Admission at the more...0 Door. https://www.facebook.com/5andDimers/videos/703244539845551/ In a city known more for its pop imports and jam bands, Jeff Rady (pedal steel) and Dustin Devine (lead guitar and vocals) created 5 & Dimers on a whim, but for good reason: they wrote some good country songs and had no band to play them. Dive into the history of the Denver music scene and you’ll find a tradition of not only great country music but a long line of country players. From the late 60s all throughout the 80s country music was a featured genre up and down the Front Range: Honky Tonks ruled the roosts and a pedal steel player could find a gig 6 nights a week. With history behind them and songs in hand, 5 & Dimers booked studio time at Macy Sound Studios, a Denver institution, and recorded 8 songs straight to tape in two days with a patchwork band scrounged from late night phone calls to secret experts and diamond-in-the-rough talent found in local dive bars. Born from a shoe string budget and limited time, the record is not only raw and authentic, but sounds like a throwback to how country records were made in the mid-1960s. 5 & Dimers is a celebration of that golden era mixing a blend of vintage country and old school rock-and-roll with just a hint of psychedelia.

MUSIC

9:30pm-1:30am, 715 Horizon Drive Ste.100

High energy American and Peruvian rock. $5 cover gets you a free drink! 21+ only.

FOOD/BEVERAGES

GENERAL

MUSIC

Lincoln Park

Sponsored by Bellco, this family friendly event brings together the elements of Arbor Day, with tree giveaways and arborists, kids activities more...0 including touch a truck, tree climbing, and bounce houses. #BellcoGivesBack will pay for the first $300 of gelato for kids! There is a Colorado Craft Brew Fest with a commemorative mug and unlimited tastings, a mac and cheese tasting and competition, live local music from Five 14, Mount Orchid, Suckafish, and Union of None. There are many amazing arts and crafts booths as well. The event is free to attend, pre-purchase beer tasting entry available until April 20 is just $20, $25 at the door, and $5 for mac and cheese tasting.

CLASSES/LECTURES

FUNDRAISERS/BENEFITS

8:30am-4:30pm, 1320 S. Hwy 191, Moab, UT 84532

Springtime in the desert is a cornucopia of brilliant colors, intoxicating smells and exotic shapes as wildflowers seemingly explode across the more...0 canyons and mesas. Trying to identify them from a book can sometimes be frustrating. And beyond simply learning the name of that mysterious flower, have you ever wanted to know more about these most colorful denizens of the desert? Canyonlands Field Institute is offering a full day Desert Wildflower Seminar dedicated to the diversity of wildflowers in southeastern Utah. The field trip will be led by local Moab biologist and wildflower expert Joel Tuhy. Joel, who also works for the Nature Conservancy, has been studying and photographing wildflowers in the region for over 30 years. We will not only learn the names but gain an appreciation for desert plants’ particular habitat requirements, adaptations, and interesting cultural uses. This day trip includes lunch, transportation, hikes and interpretive talks. This program starts at 8:30 am at our office located at 1320 S. Hwy 191 just south of Moab, UT. Locations visited during the trip will be determined depending on where the best blooms happen to be at the time, but expect a number of short hikes up to half a mile round trip from the vehicle during the day. We will return to town late afternoon, arriving at CFI around 4:30-5:00.

FUNDRAISERS/BENEFITS

8:30am-4:30pm, 1320 S. Hwy 191, Moab, UT 84532

Springtime in the desert is a cornucopia of brilliant colors, intoxicating smells and exotic shapes as wildflowers seemingly explode across the more...0 canyons and mesas. Trying to identify them from a book can sometimes be frustrating. And beyond simply learning the name of that mysterious flower, have you ever wanted to know more about these most colorful denizens of the desert? Canyonlands Field Institute is offering a full day Desert Wildflower Seminar dedicated to the diversity of wildflowers in southeastern Utah. The field trip will be led by local Moab biologist and wildflower expert Joel Tuhy. Joel, who also works for the Nature Conservancy, has been studying and photographing wildflowers in the region for over 30 years. We will not only learn the names but gain an appreciation for desert plants’ particular habitat requirements, adaptations, and interesting cultural uses. This day trip includes lunch, transportation, hikes and interpretive talks. This program starts at 8:30 am at our office located at 1320 S. Hwy 191 just south of Moab, UT. Locations visited during the trip will be determined depending on where the best blooms happen to be at the time, but expect a number of short hikes up to half a mile round trip from the vehicle during the day. We will return to town late afternoon, arriving at CFI around 4:30-5:00.